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The good folks at Reddit are already getting their Redditors fired up about the massive document dump we reported earlier this evening. There’s an official link to the trove of information that more than 200 journalists have been combing through for the better part of a year available here. And there’s an informational video available on YouTube on how to use the search tool that… Read More... →

FEATURE: The most surprising fact about video and music streaming pioneer RealNetworks more than 22 years after its founding is that the Seattle-based company still exists. Since being founded by former Microsoft executive Rob Glaser in 1994, the company has managed to be at times too far ahead of the curve and too far behind; a […]... →

One of the most important lessons that Silicon Valley learned, that gives it a strategic advantage, is to think bigger than products and business models: it builds platforms. The fastest growing and most disruptive companies in history — Google, Amazon, Uber, AirBnb, and eBay—aren’t focused on selling products, they are building platforms. It goes beyond tech.  Companies such… Read More... →

GUEST: Bots are fast becoming all the rage in tech, offering users the ability to use a messaging app to type in simple English requests to services like Uber. The user interface is just like texting a friend, and it’s far simpler to enter a message than to download and use a clunky native app. As […]... →

All day, the Internet has been abuzz with stories culled from the “Panama Papers” — roughly 2.6 terabytes of documents, related to hundreds of thousands of offshore companies, leaked from a small, relatively unknown Panamanian law firm called Mossack Fonseca. Read More... →

Posted by FelixProOptimizationThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc.[Estimated read time: 7 minutes] Website loading speed is a priority for the overall user experience, and it’s also one of the hundreds of SEO ranking factors. Truth is, nowadays people don’t have the patience to wait more than five seconds for a page to load.... →

GUEST: Whenever I hear or see the word “innovation,” a feeling of nausea washes over me. Unlike other cliché buzzwords (synergy, paradigm shift, value-add, etc.) that I have forced myself to accept, I’m afraid “innovation” is one I may never be able to stomach. The word is the corporate equivalent of Valleyspeak linguistic fillers such as […]... →

If Elon Musk was delighted by the 115,000 orders for his Tesla Model 3 at launch, he should be positively jubilant with the latest figures which break the $10 billion mark. Today, the Tesla Motors CEO tweeted that his company had received 276,000 orders for the Model 3 at the end of day on Saturday April 2, 2016. […]... →

Insurance policies can be complex, and some policyholders may not understand all the fees and coverages included in a policy. Indeed, people typically buy policies on unfavorable terms. In 2014, two major insurers, Blue Shield and Cigna of California, were sued for misrepresentation of the coverage network, which caused delays for their consumers in accessing needed health care. Yet,… Read More... →

GUEST: Can machines be creative? Recent successes in AI have shown that machines can now perform at human levels in many tasks that, just a few years ago, were considered to be decades away, like driving cars, understanding spoken language, and recognizing objects. But these are all tasks where we know what needs to be done, […]... →

Technology is surrounding us; its surface is becoming more complex, pliable and familiar to the eye. Virtual reality is no longer creeping into the mainstream: It’s leaping. Though the industry is giddy with the potential of VR, the consumer is still a step away from being able to enjoy a virtual experience while riding the bus. Read More... →

There’s been a “global application rewrite” which means that entrepreneurs need to understand that “regulation is part of their product”. Read More... →

Virtual reality is finally putting players into video game worlds, and one of the best early examples of this is an Oculus Rift launch game that plays a whole lot like classic games you remember from Nintendo 64. Lucky’s Tale is out now for Oculus VR’s head-mounted display, and we are enjoying our time with […]... →

GUEST: In the future, instead of carrying around your favorite technology like you do with your smartphone, your must-have technology may be glued to you. Before pulling on your jeans each morning, you would apply its silicone layers directly to your skin. Its functions would surround your body, a smartphone diffused into an electronic aura. Powered […]... →

Microsoft has had its fair share of criticism about its platform strategy. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, recently blasted Microsoft’s commitment to an open Windows platform. HoloLens may not do much for games at a time when rivals are betting on virtual reality. And Sony continues to lead in hardware sales in the console wars. […]... →

Google Search Console seems to have a gap in data, literally a gap. If you go to the Google Search Analytics report, you will see that the 29th of March is missing data...... →

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GUEST: Apple’s software quality has been drawing criticism for some time now. Marco Arment helped bring this to the forefront with his blog post “Apple has lost the functional high ground.” What followed was a firestorm that was so pronounced that when Apple publicly announced iOS 9, it framed the new version as a chance to […]... →

For many, the promise of digital advertising is the wealth of information that comes with every impression they buy. However, all this data becomes virtually useless when marketers employ the wrong success metrics for their campaigns. Read More... →

ANALYSIS: When it comes to going public, sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. The first quarter of 2016 saw no technology IPOs on U.S. markets, according to a report released last week by research firm Dealogic. The last time this was happened was seven years ago, in the months following the collapse of Lehman […]... →